Looks like the time has come to move on to the next adventure.  After 7 good years, finding a wonderful girlfriend and enjoying my new friends, it looks like we are no longer welcome in their country.  If I had it to choose I would stay put, but clearly that choice has been taken out of our hands.  While I would like to think that I understand the logic behind this decision, I simply don't.  I can only imagine the chaos, confusion and hardship this will create for the Thai people who live and survive off the expat community.  Things like rental properties being vacated, food courts and bars loosing long term customers, motorbike rentals, women and children being supported by expat dollars that will now have to go without.  I will likely head to Da Nang but try to maintain my relationship with my Thai girlfriend for as long as I can.  With any luck the Thai authorities will recognize the mistake they have made and correct it before it does any more damage.  But then again, Its Thailand.

 

 

I think you overestimate your value to the Thai economy and the effect a few Cheap Charlies leaving the country will have.  Enjoy your travels.

Another (not) enthralling "I'm going" thread.

It's all getting a bit boring now.

As your new on here, did you not know of the current new requirements before extending?Im sure many non TV members are still unaware and will be caught out...just asking

I just wish those leaving,threatening to leave,would just go,and stop

posting about it,Thailand does not care you are going,if you don't

have the funds ,that's not Thailand's problem,its yours,I may not

agree to the changes,as I am sure it will also affect me in the future,

been a landlord,i am sure it will be more difficult to find good Farang

renters in the future.but nothing I can do,so just accept it.

 

regards Worgeordie

I think you overestimate your value to the Thai economy and the effect a few Cheap Charlies leaving the country will have.  Enjoy your travels.

The village farang cheap junk


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27 minutes ago, hroman said:

With any luck the Thai authorities will recognize the mistake they have made and correct it before it does any more damage.

Now that's funny!

I left Thailand after ten years of putting up with their nonsense. I was back in LOS six weeks later with a new appreciation. Recently I had to scramble a little to put that much cash together (I was asset rich, cash poor), but Thailand is a sovereign nation and to me it's worth the trouble. I don't know a single person leaving because of the new requirements. Plenty of grousing but no Thaixit. Best of luck to ya.

7 minutes ago, wreckingcountry said:

25 minutes ago, villagefarang said:

I think you overestimate your value to the Thai economy and the effect a few Cheap Charlies leaving the country will have.  Enjoy your travels.

The village farang cheap junk

yep, no need to call the OP names.......  i noticed that as well.   

2 minutes ago, quandow said:

I left Thailand after ten years of putting up with their nonsense. I was back in LOS six weeks later with a new appreciation. Recently I had to scramble a little to put that much cash together (I was asset rich, cash poor), but Thailand is a sovereign nation and to me it's worth the trouble. I don't know a single person leaving because of the new requirements. Plenty of grousing but no Thaixit. Best of luck to ya.

What did you encounter that caused your ""new appreciation" ?   serious question,  as i personally feel that the hassles that some complain about are minimal when compared to those elsewhere.  But those who complain are free to leave and check the waters out elsewhere.  I do not like when they bash Thailand, but I did not think the OP was very harsh about that.  Others are much worse.  

5 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

I just wish those leaving,threatening to leave,would just go,and stop

posting about it,Thailand does not care you are going,if you don't

have the funds ,that's not Thailand's problem,its yours,I may not

agree to the changes,as I am sure it will also affect me in the future,

been a landlord,i am sure it will be more difficult to find good Farang

renters in the future.but nothing I can do,so just accept it.

 

regards Worgeordie

yeh, but Worgeordie... and respectfully (strange term to use on TVF I know!) ???? , some (sure not all) of the TVF community actually get quite a lot out of reading a range of different views on coming to/staying in/leaving Thailand. I guess for those who are sick n tired of reading these sorts of threads....hmmnn, don't read them lol. Granted, there's been an awful lot of these type of threads and associated stories/reasons for leaving...but it highlights the changes afoot. Useful for someone like me thinking about best way to approach a more or less long term move to the LoS ???? 

 

And, maybe, for some poor deluded Thai-struck newbie... you know the sort who has visited once and is now thinking about selling up and escaping to "paradise"....well, these sorts of threads can act as a useful reality-check?  Maybe there should be a sub-topic forum established? Save those who have heard it all before from hearing it again?

 

Apart from all that...what about the wonderful, world-weary repartee that is fired back in threads such as this...enjoyable reading whilst enjoying a second cup of cha in the morning.

 

cheers, TM

at this rate, I will be the only one at immigration in July when I get my extension. 

 

It's easy to dismiss as insignificant the macroeconomic contribution of an individual expat to the Thai economy. However, when you drill down to a microeconomic level - which is what the OP was emphasizing - it's a different story.

 

Thais who directly benefit from the support or custom from a foreigner will unquestionably feel the affect of an expat's departure. As an example, even someone on a tight budget might easily spend 120,000 baht/year on food. Assuming a 15% profit margin for the vendor, that's a drop of 18,000 baht/year in net income, i.e., for many people a loss of a month or two of net income. And that's just for food purchases.

 

Obviously, the more directly dependent someone is on the foreigner or the more the foreigner spends, the more the impact will be felt.

Overdramatic drama queen horseshit - can they just not be merged or even better have a 'whining' thread where all like minded doom mongers can go ? (serious suggestion mods)
 
They are like a cancer on here sapping any semblance of positivity
 

B******t


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2 hours ago, quandow said:

I left Thailand after ten years of putting up with their nonsense. I was back in LOS six weeks later with a new appreciation. Recently I had to scramble a little to put that much cash together (I was asset rich, cash poor), but Thailand is a sovereign nation and to me it's worth the trouble. I don't know a single person leaving because of the new requirements. Plenty of grousing but no Thaixit. Best of luck to ya.

There are some expats who are or will be leaving, but I think Thailand is better off without them. They either can't afford to retire, or keeping a family here, or have been cheating with the help of some Unscrupulous "Agents"

3 hours ago, villagefarang said:

I think you overestimate your value to the Thai economy and the effect a few Cheap Charlies leaving the country will have.  Enjoy your travels.

It may be the case that his value to the Thai economy may not be that great but the value of all European, Aussie and USA expats to the Thai economy is much greater than you think, when you consider the number of foreign companies and investors in Thailand. Investors, even when they are supposedly getting the 5 star treatment, actually dont. And they are not happy. Western tourists are not happy either. Start adding it all together and it starts looking like a large impact on the Thai economy.

 

Yes, there is always the Chinese.

 

I have never used an agent or any other 'device', but I will move on because the goal-posts have moved so much now, that I would have to consider doing something like that, in order to maintain my 'status'. So I don't condescend to others who might have had to make that move before me.

 

I tried to think of a reasonable way to summarise the attitude of threads like this and the only line I could come up with was this one:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I'm all right jack

 

There's a lot of you out there.

"If I had it to choose I would stay put, but clearly that choice has been taken out of our hands."

   With respect...no choice has been taken out of my hands?

   You also say..

 

3 hours ago, hroman said:

While I would like to think that I understand the logic behind this decision, I simply don't.  

  What decision exactly are you talking about?

I am in a similar situation , been here for quite a few years and now just waiting for my one way flight out .

  Maybe its just me , but everyone seems miserable and unhappy these days.

Lived here all the time on tourist visas and am due for a red stamp on my next tourist visa application  and stand a good chance of getting refused entry , so, may as well stay away , no big deal really

This has nothing to do with Visas to other countries and is offering nothing of value, so I’ll close it.